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admonish
- (v) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty
- syn: warn, call on the carpet
- ant: praise, pat on the back
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breach
- (n) an onpening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; (v) to create an opening, break through
- ant: (v) close, seal
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brigand
(n) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
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circumspect
- (adj) careful, cautious
- syn: wary, prudent, guarded
- ant: incautious, rash, reckless, heedless
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commandeer
- (v) to seize for military or official use
- syn: take over, requisition, expropriate
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cumbersome
- (adj) clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving
- syn: unwieldy, ponderous
- ant: manageable, easy to handle
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deadlock
- (n) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; (v) to bring to such a standstill
- syn: (n) standoff, stalemate, impasse
- ant: (n) agreement, accord, breakthrough
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debris
- (n) scattered fragment, wreckage
- syn: rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsam
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diffuse
- (v) to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj) wordy, longwinded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread
- syn: (v) disperse; (adj) rambling, verbose, prolix
- ant: (v) concentrate; (adj) brief, concise, succinct
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dilemma
- (n) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
- syn: predicament, quandry, picklee, bind
- ant: cinch
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efface
- (v) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
- syn: blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge
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muddle
- (v) to make a mess of; muddle through: to get by; (n) a hopeless mess
- syn: (v) jumble, mess up; (n) confusion, disorder
- ant: (n) orderliness, tidiness, neatness
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opinionated
- (adj) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind.
- syn: obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible
- ant: open-minded, reasonable
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perennial
- (adj) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n) a plant that lives for many years
- syn: (adj) enduring, recurring
- ant: (adj) brief, short-lived, fleeting, ephemeral
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predispose
- (v) to incline to beforehand
- syn: make susceptible to
- ant: immunize against, shield from
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relinquish
- (v) to let go, give up
- syn: surrender, abandon
- ant: hold on to, keep, retain, cling to
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salvage
- (v) to save from fire or shipwreck; (n) properly thus saved
- syn: (v) rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim
- ant: (v) abandon, scrap, junk
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spasmodic
- (adj) sudden an violent but brief; fitful; intermittent
- syn: irregular, occasional
- ant: steady, continuous, chronic
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spurious
- (adj) not genuine, not true, not valid
- syn: false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus
- ant: genuine, authentic, bona fide, valid
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unbridled
- (adj) uncontrolled, lacking in interest
- syn: unrestrained, unchecked
- ant: restrained, held in check, muted
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